Money Matters workshop to be held at the Central Library on Wednesday, Aug. 3

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama-If you made a New Year’s Resolution to get your financial house in order in 2016, the Birmingham Public Library (BPL) and UAB’s Regions Institute for Financial Education have partnered to offer a workshop series that can help you accomplish that goal. On Wednesday, Aug. 3, the Central Library will host the second in a monthly series of workshops called “Money Matters.

The free workshops are held the first Wednesday of each month from noon to 1 p.m. inside the Arrington Auditorium on the fourth floor of the Linn-Henley Research Building, 2100 Park Place in downtown Birmingham. Clayton Hollinhead, a UAB adjunct instructor and employee of Regions Bank, will be the presenter on Aug. 3. Most classes are being taught by Dr. Stephanie R. Yates, an endowed professor and director of the Regions Institute for Financial Education in UAB’s Collat School of Business.

Money Matters covers a variety of topics designed to give people a better understanding of personal finance so they can develop a successful plan for the future. For background on UAB’s Regions Institute for Financial Education, click on the link below: https://www.uab.edu/business/home/departments-centers/centers-outreach/institute-for-financial-education

The first workshop, “Income, Savings and Assets,” was held on July 6. See the remaining schedule and topics through May 2017 below:

For more information about the workshop series and other financial literacy resources available at BPL, please contact Jim Murray of the Central Library’s Business, Science and Technology Department by e-mail at jmurray@bham.lib.al.us or by calling 205-226-3691.

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